Career Of Monash

NZ Truth, Issue 997, 3 January 1925, Page 1

Car eer Of Monash

[?ew men have achieved sudh eminhe m war and m peace "as the Mel-*nrne-born lieutenant-General Sir Mbnash, aC.AI.G., X.C.8., M.C.E., A!., D.C.L., LL.D., M.lnst.C.E., and vfholder of ' most of the foreign war ibrations extant. i i 'prn 59 years ago, Monash was located at Scotch' College and MclUniversity. His scholastic eer was as brilliant as was his sub■uent record m the war. Graduat- ; m arts, law, and engineering, he xtised as a' civil engineer, building (ways; toads, and bridges, and spelising-" m reinfoi'ced concrete. The fame he won as a. soldier on Uipoli was completed Jn France.. c wonderful achievement of Monash 1 his men m stemming, the .German •ush to Amiens, after the/smashing Gough's Fifth British Army, de'•ibed by H. G. Wells as "the great r

est disaster m military ' history," has never been recognised , appropi'iately m Britain and Australia, although Ludendoff, German Chief of Staff/ in his '•Memoirs," without mentioning names, crisply comments, "Our failure then to seize Amiens lost the war for Germanyi" .'■■.':.'. . ■/•• ~ ■ ; .

Mqnash was responsible for organising the demobilisation of the Australian forces. Returning to Victoria, lie resumed the practise of his profession, and m 1920. was appointed General Manager of the Morwell scheme, and, later. Chairman of ; the Electricity .Commission, at a salary of- £3000 a year/ Keen, analytical, a. „ masterly controller of men, and; an astute ■student of . v human nature, - . Sir V John Monash possesses. v most of the best qualities of ■ his'/ successful race. He is a big Australian. If he chpse': to enter politics, his power would be immediate and far rreachin£r. ; / -;H '••■."', -/'■ :;■■ , : : -'-':